Goa Governor Satya Pal Malik on Wednesday said that India has five Nobel laureates, stating that six of the 12 Indians who have won the award is a “foreigner.” One award winner was ‘Mother Teresa.’ Speaking at a function organized by the National Institute of Oceanography in Panaji, Malik said inadequate government spending on could […]
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West Bengal Government on Monday issued a notice to the revision of salaries of teachers and Professors of public universities aided and government-aided colleges and universities that the government will be effective from January 1, 2020. We might remember that on November 1, CM Mamata Banerjee has announced that the revised UGC pay scale, as […]
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Department of Human Resources Development held a full-day workshop on “Social Media Management and Practice” on December 27, 2019, at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi to various educational institutions and organizations. The workshop was inaugurated by Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, Hon’ble Union Minister for HRD. The Central University of Odisha along with a center funded by […]
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At the time of widespread protests by students, Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank has unveiled new guidelines for Values and Ethics in Higher Education. In the section on the role of different stakeholders, the guidelines prepared by the University Grants Commission has the following suggestions to the student union: “Support for the legal […]
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Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Union Human Resource Development Minister, has launched five documents developed by UGC covering five verticals of quality mandate here on Thursday. A release by the officials mentioned that these five documents cover evaluation reforms, sustainable and ecofriendly university campuses, human values and professional ethics, academic research integrity, and faculty induction. Speaking on […]
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PhD Students in India must now learn ethics and publication errors. They will now learn about Plagiarism and all the research ethics. UGC sent a circular letter to all higher education institutions affiliated to it on Thursday said it had approved a two-credit course on ethics and publication errors. Entitled Research and Publication Ethics (RPE), […]
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Artificial Intelligence, also known as machine intelligence, is demonstrated and conducted by machines in contrast to the average intelligence displayed by humans. It was back in 1956; the term was first used by John Macarthy. But it came in use much before 1956. It was for the first time that this subject came for lively […]
The government on Monday said that now 83 percent of B.Ed Colleges in Jammu and Kashmir was not any more functional. Commissioner Secretary to Government for Higher Education Department, Talat Parvez Rohella said that only 17 percent of B.Ed Colleges were actively functioning and working in the region of Jammu and Kashmir. “There was mushrooming […]
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The National Accreditation and Assessment Council continue to develop and implement new methods of evaluation for the benefit of students pursuing higher education in the country, said Dr. Devender S Kawday, Deputy Advisor, NAAC. There are 37.4 million students in higher education in India as of today, and this is an essential asset for the […]
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The teaching and non-teaching faculties of Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) have urged the State government to deny conventional universities from providing distance education courses. The staff demands immediate implementation to make distance education the sole preserve of KSOU. They also said conventional universities should not be authorized any further to continue distance education courses […]